The Bloxels Blog
The Pixel Press Team had the chance to host a Bloxels Game Jam with its largest group yet, nearly 50 5th graders at KIPP Triumph Academy in St. Louis. The game jam took place on Saturday, January 23rd.
The event was also covered by FOX2 News, you can watch the news reel on their website here.
Here is a link to our short presentation (PDF) that included breaking each team into roles and objectives for the games the students built.
NOTE: Entries for this contest ends January 31st, 2016 at 11:59p CST and winners will be announced here on February 2nd, 2016.
2.1.16 UPDATE: Contest entry is now closed, thanks to all who participated.
2.2.16 UPDATE: Winners announced, read about it here.
Our very first 13-bit Builder contest is live today! We need your help in decorating our Toy Fair New York 2016 Booth (#3255, February 13th-16th 2016) and want to feature YOUR character, created with Bloxels.
To enter you'll just need to create a character, submit it to the Bloxels Infinity Wall, and enter your information in the entry form at the bottom of this page. Our four winners will be mailed a t-shirt with their character printed on it and we'll also be featuring the winning characters on t-shirts that we'll be wearing in the booth during Toy Fair. One luck grand prize winner will also receive a framed print of their character!
This contest runs now through January 31st, so get building today and remember to submit your entry here!
An example of a character that can be created with Bloxels. This is Safari Jack, or sometimes called Safari Bob.
An example of Idle, Walk, and Jump animations created with Bloxels. This is Pixtreme the Skateboarder, or sometimes just referred to as Pixtreme.
We will announce our favorite four (4) entries to be the winners on February 2nd, 2016, with one (1) of those four being the Grand Prize winner!
Each winner will receive a t-shirt with their winning Bloxels character on the front, and members of our team will wear shirts each day with your characters featured on it inside the Bloxels Booth (#3255) during the Toy Fair New York 2016, February 13-16, 2016!
Keep an eye on Twitter and Facebook accounts and this page for contest winners, photos and more.
Winning character designs will be featured on t-shirts worn by the Pixel Press team inside the Bloxels booth (#3255) at Toy Fair New York, February 13-16th, 2016.
Each of the four winners will each receive a t-shirt of their character design.
The Grand Prize Winner will also receive a Framed Print of the Character along with their T-Shirt. We can't wait to see the cool characters you send us!
Winners will be announced on February 2nd, 2016! (This contest is over, see the winners here)
The grand prize winner will received a framed print of their character.
Winners will be selected based on up to 3 criteria. (1) the number of likes to character receives, (2) an internal Pixel Press team vote or an external guest judge vote evaluating creations based on creativity and complexity, and (3) any voting that is conducted on our social media accounts.
Votes will be tallied and winners will be notified on or before February 2nd, 2016. (This contest is over, see the winners here)
Be sure to share your entry on social media and with others via email using the Infinity Wall share feature. (watch the Infinity Wall Tutorial Video for more information on how to share).
When sharing on social media use hash tags #Bloxels #TFNY #13bitbuilder and tweet us at @bloxelsbuilder to make sure people can find your entry!
Once you have created a character, you must post it on the Infinity Wall and fill out your Contest Entry Form.
To post your creation on the Infinity Wall:
The Bloxels Infinity Wall, where all the content you share is displayed!
The Entry form must be filled out with required fields in order to be eligible to win. The contest will run from the moment of this post until January 31st at 11:59pm.
Winners will be announced on February 2nd, 2016. (This contest is over, see the winners here)
Get creating!
UPDATE: Contest entry is now closed,
thanks to all who participated.
When sharing on social media use hash tag #Bloxels #NYTF #13bitbuilder and tweet us at @bloxelsbuilder to make sure people can find your entry!
Some of our favorite Tweets from pre-order shipment week. Thanks for sharing and keep tweeting, we'll post them here.
We're excited to announce that Bloxels Builder is now released on Apple and Android phones and tablets and coming very soon to Kindle. You can download the app here.
Happy building!
Unloading our first Bloxels shipment at our warehouse in Atlanta, Georgia.
We're getting ever closer to submitting Bloxels to the app stores, and this week is bug testing week. Checkout the collection of app screenshots below. These were all captured to attached to tickets in our bug tracking system to let the developers know about issues we are seeing.
Can you spot the bugs?
We recently had the honor of working with the girls of Mathews-Dickey on creating a game for their 27th Annual "Sheer Elegance" Fashion Show. The theme for this year's show was video games, so we were asked to help make a game to be played during the runway show.
Below is a video put together to highlight the "making of the game" and you can learn more about the event at on the Mathews-Dickey website. Thanks to organizer Bill Fronczak, the girls and the entire Mathews-Dickey team for including us in this great event.
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Bloxels was demonstrated and tested by 3rd and 6th grade students at Hillsboro (Missouri) Elementary. This video highlights students and teacher's reaction to their experience creating with Bloxels. Learn more about Bloxels on our Bloxels EDU page.
A big thanks to Ms. Perry (@PlanetPerry2024) and Ms. Litterst for having us!
Photos from the TEDx Gateway Arch event today.
The full length "When Pigs Fly" commercial for Bloxels. Thanks to "dad", the kids and our marketing partner HLK for their hard work on this spot.
Thanks to Cindy Lane (@Clane) and Judy Talleur (@sjmmakerspace) for spending the day with us building with Bloxels.
Below are 6th, 7th and 8th graders from St. Justin Martyr (@StJustinSTL) building games in the classroom.
We hope you are all gearing up for a fun Halloween weekend. To celebrate we put together a pumpkin inspired game built from Bloxels to share with you. We call it "Pumpkin Breaker"!
This game was created with a feature we haven't talked too much about yet called Codeboard. With the Codeboard feature you can start with the same creative content you build with Bloxels, but create completely custom game types by adding a layer of advanced scripting (a.k.a. code) to your game environment.
Learn more about how this works over on our Advanced Activities page.
Interested in a classroom video chat with the creators of Bloxels? We're offering an exclusive Bloxels package that includes 2 30-minutes video chat sessions (via Skype or Google Hangout) where we'll cover any topic of your choice, including Train-the-Trainer, A Students Introduction to Bloxels, Show & Tell with the Creators and more.
Head on over to our Store to browse our Classroom Packages for more information.
Below are photos from one of our past video chats. This is from two classrooms in the United Kingdom.
Pixel Press co-founder and CEO Robin Rath sits down with Collin Cummings of PlayWell to discuss all things Bloxels.
PlayWell provides tools for aspiring game creators to master the skills for making games through courses, workshops, collaboration, mentors and events.
We had a great time shooting our latest Bloxels feature videocalled "It's Your Imagination's Turn to Play". A big thanks to the team at HLK for putting together the shoot, director Steve Parisi, and our team of actors: Bill (Dad), Ricky, Jake, Iris, Kai and Katharine.
What a show off...
